Beyond The Rim…

It is Valentine’s day, which in the midst of Lent is a curious mixture, since it is a day that focuses on our desire for love (both giving and receiving), while Lent is pointed at death (the impending crucifixion of…

One of the themes of the book I am reading (Father Elijah) is that there have been many apocalypses leading up to the future final Apocalypse. But we often forget that in every age the spirit of Antichrist has been…

There is a character in the book (Father Elijah) I am reading, who saves David’s life (later Father Elijah) when he is a young Jewish boy in the Warsaw ghetto, being pursued by German soldiers. In the end, after they…

Our power was down all last night from the ice and didn’t get back on until after four this morning, so I will be little late with my meditation from yesterday. I have been reading an interesting book, Father Elijah,…

Monday. Today, we begin the first full week of Lent and already I am having problems completing these meditations. I have not written on this blog with this kind of discipline since last Lent and with everything that is going…

Traditionally Sundays are not part of Lent, they are break from the discipline, a brief peak into Easter, initially so far off on the horizon. They are a rest days, a true break fast, which is where the word breakfast…

Sometimes I have started my Lenten discipline with a specific purpose, such as last year when I focused on the meaning of love. Yet even then I never knew where those efforts would take me. This year I had no…

This Lent seems to be starting off on what to some people is a morbid topic: death. However, while death can be a scary topic, since becoming a Christian I have always seen it as a gift. Let me explain….

Continuing with the theme expressed in yesterday’s Ash Wednesday posting, the inevitability of death, I thought it might be interesting to think about how our eventual demise influences how we see the purpose of our life and why we should…

Today is day one of my 2008 Lenten observance. For several years I have recorded my daily Lenten observations on this blog, partly as a Lenten discipline, but mostly to share my thoughts with others going through the same exercise….